Canadian Open: Keys knocks out Williams in straight sets
Madison Keys beat Venus Williams 6-2, 7-5 on Monday night. She’ll face Italian Jasmine Paolini in the next round
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No 13 seed Madison Keys has snuffed out any hope of a dream run by wildcard Venus Williams at the Canadian Open on Monday night, defeating the former world No 1 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the second round.
43-year-old Williams gave a good account of herself, fighting hard in the second set and coming close to forcing a decider after she staved off eight match points. However, Keys had too much power for the seven-time Grand Slam champion, winning 63 percent of her second serve return points.
Keys, ranked No 15, will play Italian Jasmine Paolini next.
Montreal WTA 1000, other round of 64 matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2,788,468):
- Belinda Bencic (12) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Victoria Azarenka (16) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
- Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2
- Katie Boulter vs. Rebecca Marino
- Elise Mertens vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Petra Martic vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Alycia Parks vs. Lauren Davis
- Camila Giorgi vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Anna Blinkova vs. Shuai Zhang
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mayar Sherif
- Bernarda Pera vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Danielle Collins vs. Elina Svitolina
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Paula Badosa
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Muchova
- Sloane Stephens vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Jennifer Brady vs. Jelena Ostapenko
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